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Quotes About Fear

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
Drama of corona continues all over
~ Ameet Behael
I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
~ Amelia Barr
He says to do a thing when you are really afraid is braver than if you felt no fear at all.
~ Amelia C. Houghton
Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again
~ Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
~ Amelia Earhart
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
~ Amelia Earhart
Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
~ Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
~ Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate Unless we dare The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.
~ Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little thing; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.
~ Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.
~ Amelia Earhart
When do I get to say whatever I wish?" "When it pains you not to," her mother had replied. "What if I'm too scared?" "All the more reason to speak your mind.
~ Ami McKay
The wall between the men's and women's rooms was built like a fortress, and solid bars covered the windows—they'd been put there by the proprietors to protect the girls' honour. Instead they'd served as a death sentence. Isn't that always the way, Mrs. Fisher had thought, man's fears causing him to do things that lead to far greater sins.
~ Ami McKay
to remind myself that a person can die while they're still alive, simply by not choosing to live." It's taken me a long time to understand what she'd meant by that. Worry can be pernicious. Left unchecked, it slowly bleeds the soul of joy and replaces it with fear.
~ Ami McKay
We live in the age of the secret and of fear. You must have two faces. Show one to the crowd, and keep the other for yourself and your Creator. If you want to keep your eyes, your ears and your tongue, forget that you have them.
~ Amin Maalouf
Il ne sert à rien de regretter sa jeunesse, Ni de maudire la vieillesse, Ni d'avoir peur de la mort, Ta vie, c'est la journée que tu es en train de vivre, Rien d'autre. Alors divertis-toi, sois heureux, Et sois prêt à partir. (p.424)
~ Amin Maalouf
je sais parfaitement que la peur pourrait faire basculer n'importe quelle personne dans le crime.
~ Amin Maalouf